tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20358187.post6792424819021947825..comments2015-02-08T22:03:19.396-05:00Comments on Far and Wide: Whip It GoodSteve Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871113039374739208noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20358187.post-61884750384052944652012-04-26T21:34:19.466-04:002012-04-26T21:34:19.466-04:00There are two issues here, women&#39;s choice and ...There are two issues here, women&#39;s choice and the definition of what it is women are doing to a rapidly evolving intelligence that from the moment of conception physically undergoes the entire gamut of pre-human evolutionary body phases that brought us to human consciousness now, and does so individually, within nine months.<br /> My son was born at the start of his 25th week, 640 grams.<br /> My son is alive because of a combination of human and divine miracles, the greatest of which to me afterwards was my certainty throughout the night and days that followed that he would live: while down the halls fetuses not much younger than my son were being aborted. These are deep issues requiring wise wording and addressing, not running from.<br /> The fetus is not an independent being unless there is a miraculous amount of miracle going on, an abortion is not murder. To me an abortion is a form of suicide particular to women, I think women always feel the loss inside themselves, however otherwise certain they may always remain that they made the right choice.<br /> The civil liberatarian/protestant-individualist/catholic personalist moderate Islam etc etc etc position is that there is no murder, however much loss of life each woman feels or doesn&#39;t feel. It&#39;s a choice that has helped women survive as the mothers of the species for tens of thousands of years.<br /> Let pro-choice forces and local communities spend their money on offering pregnant women ways to have children that mothers can raise with dignity. Create a genuine choice stream and some will take that route, other&#39;s won&#39;t. The species survives.<br /> There&#39;s all kinds of sorrows in these stories, let&#39;s speak honestly, let&#39;s speak politically, philosophically and theologically, let&#39;s talk scientifically, let&#39;s talk choice, and then vote with a genuine conscience, fully aware, as you suggest Steve, that freedoms are always interdependent.Jerry Pragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09054428435443042500noreply@blogger.com